“Advisory Referendum on the State of New Columbia Admission Act Resolution of 2016”

“The referendum was designed to ask voters if they wanted to split the nation’s capital into a new state for residents and a federal district for the government buildings and monuments. The proposal would also provide for the new state to be called New Columbia and allow voters to approve of the new constitution and boundaries. This referendum question was put on the ballot as an advisory question and was not designed to have any legally binding effect.”